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Originally Posted by davidfor
Changing the calibre save template is a simple way to slow down reaching the limit. The default is "{author_sort}/{title} - {authors}", so changing to "{author_sort}/{title}" would reduce the length of the name a lot without losing much info in the name.
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I have set the template to {author_sort[0]}/{author_sort:list_item(0,\,)}, {title} to save a bit of space, only the surname of the first author is used. I think this would let me have about 3000-3500 books.
I am thinking about using {author_sort[0]}/{id} so each filename is just the Calibre library ID, which would allow about 5400 books.
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An alternative would be to rename the image files and update the database to match. Dropping "file..." prefix would save a bit. That wouldn't be to hard to automate. Or maybe a database trigger on insert?
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Something along those lines would be nice as an option. Do you think using shorter names would help reduce the database size, or are the fields padded out to fill a fixed size?